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Old May 8th, 2018, 08:25 PM   #34559
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Originally Posted by palo5 View Post
Oh! Clearly I'm confusing something. I thought democracy was when everyone gets a vote, every vote counts, and it leads to representative government. And I thought demonstrations had to do with freedom of expression, and needed permission from local authorities

Did I get that wrong?

Yes in the West we are free to define democracy as we see it, not by a text book definition although ....
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...lish/democracy

POLITICS - the belief that everyone in a country has the right to express their opinions, and that power should be held by people who are elected, or a system of government based on this belief:
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